Black Holy One
Apache · deity · primordial / underworld time · Recorded classification
Leading creator-Hactcin classed 'deity'. Jicarilla color-named (Black) supernatural; paired with White Hactcin (of the sky/upper world). Term Hậctcin Diłhił reflects diłhił 'black' in Jicarilla; orthography per Opler.
Domains
- creation
Powers
- make the first animals from clay
- shape the first man
Epithets
- Hậctcin Diłhił Black Hactcin (the black Holy One of the underworld)Morris E. Opler, Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians (1938) (secondary)
Relations
- companion: Holy OnesForemost of the Jicarilla Holy Ones, who shaped the animals and the first man in the underworld before the emergence.M. E. Opler, Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians (1938) (secondary)
Sources
- Black Hactcin is the chief Jicarilla underworld Holy One who creates the first animals from clay and shapes the first man.: Morris E. Opler, 'Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians,' Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society vol. 31 (1938). (ethnography)